Stillhouse Fishing Guide Report – 17 May 2010 – 114 Fish






I fished a half-day morning trip this morning with Larry, “Grandpa”, and Heather H. of Belton. Larry and Heather both serve in the medical field here in Central Texas, and Grandpa is a retired pharmacist who, at age 91, was officially my most senior client ever coming aboard to date!! We caught a great number of white bass and 3 black bass in excess of 3.25 pounds and had a real good time doing it.


Larry weighed in with a nice 4.50 pound largemouth.


Heather took top honors today with a long, clean, solid 5.75 pound largemouth mixed in with a huge school of white bass right on bottom.


And Grandpa started off the whole big fish episode with this nice 3.25 pound black bass.


Start Time: 6:20a

End Time: 11:45a

Air Temp: 72F at trip’s start.

Water Surface Temp: ~74F

Wind: Winds began calm this morning, then went light and variable, then turned E. at 4-5 but steady.

Skies: Skies went from clear to partly cloudy at the same time the E. wind kicked in around 10am.

We fished only 4 areas today, finding fish at 3 of them.

The morning started off throwing sub-surface bladebaits to schooling white bass chasing young of the year shad in the vicinity of Area 620. We boated 12 white bass, a small largemouth, and a channel catfish.

Once these fish left the shallows due to windless, bright conditions, we followed them down and out to between Areas 204 and 017 and continued catching them on a Licker-Pet combination in open water suspended at 12-18 feet. We boated 12 more white bass, 1 drum, and 1 small largemouth.


After this action died, we again gave downrigging a try from Area 452 to Area 453 with nothing to show for it.

Around 10a, we took a look at sonar in the vicinity of Area 596 and found the bottom literally carpeted with white bass over a 60 yard stretch. At this area, we put 86 fish in the boat in an hour and forty-five minutes using a smoking retrieve when the fish were turned on, and a lift-drop retrieve after they cooled off. Most fish were right at 12.5 inches in length putting up a good fight on the matched light tackle. We also landed the 3 large bass pictured above, and several smaller bass, some of legal size and some not.

By trip’s end we’d boated a total of 114 fish using a variety of techniques, we’d told all kinds of fishing tales and the like, we’d seen what a difference a bit of cloud cover and some breeze makes on the fishing, and we returned to the water all we took from it.

A great day with some great folks!!

TALLY = 114 FISH, all caught and released








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